EU member states agreed Wednesday to extend damaging economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis by another six months to the end of January 2016, European sources said.Ambassadors from the 28 European Union nations reached a “consensus” on the legal text extending the sanctions from July, which is expected to be submitted for formal approval by EU foreign ministers on Monday, the sources said.The EU imposed the sanctions targeting Russia’s banks, oil and defense sectors after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in July 2014.EU leaders agreed in principle in March to roll those …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
